Finally got my mq8 sandwiched. While pinning I wondered for the first time if there is a right way to pin itt? I start at one corner and goback and forth tial bottom should i be pinning center vertical then center horizontal then each quarter section. Just wondere how others do theirs.

I also had to run to neighbors 74 yrs old she had fallen from being on step ladder while balancing holding top of metal shelf in her basement to change a water filter, she fell backward and hit her double metal sink below her neck thank god she had a stack of towels hanging over edge. She has multiple schlerosis and shouldn't be up on any ladder in my oppinion. She is bruised but seems ok. I told her no more working overhead to make call someone for help first but she is very independant. I'm just glad she is still around to talk to.

Hope you can continue on the path to recovery. Linda can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the magazine she referred to is a free magazine, with no costs at all attached. Prayers are headed your way.

Sorry that's all I can remember ( brain freeze or a Craft moment ( Can't remember a flipping thing!!)).

The antibiotics seem to have kicked in and I must admit I do feel better still coughing a bit but nowhere near as bad as I was.

Glad the weekend has arrived. Our Rugby league team has an important cup match tomorrow so we will go to that after lunch.

Sunday will relax and hopefully get some of the mountain of washing done and dried. The beautiful weather of last weekend has gone again! I think it is very chilly today and am thinking about putting the heating on as my hands are frozen.

Just a day for housework I guess as this mother is having her daughters and families over for a Mother's Day Bar-B-Q. So far I have washed the throw rugs and vacuumed. Still need to finish cleaning up my sewing area (just the stuff that little Logan can reach and pull down), plan the menu for Sunday and go grocery shopping. Finished my 3rd purse before DH (who's not such a dear this morning) got up. Finagled him into doing the dusting, which he did, but it was a half-assed job in just one room. Oh well, at least that is one room I won't have to do, sort of.

Wow
what wonderful afternoon, with help of a hard working neighbor I got 9
roses planted, 2 Queen Elizabeth, a Mikado, Mr Lincoln, and 2 climber
Don Juan and New Dawn, 2 double blossom Knockouts and one single
Knockout and last but not least 2 tomato plants. I'm so excited, I love
Roses ( a Rose Garden) more than any other flower. Have 2 Hydranga, an
Encore Azelea, and a Rosemary (transplanting and citron) to get back in
the ground.

Got to go get more soil tomorrow and maybe
pickup a few more roses and a cucumber and a couple squash plants. I
would love a couple more Encores also.

It's going to be so
beautiful this summer, it's going to smell divine. I would love to find
some King or Queen's Ransom roses, gotta have yellow roses. You can
take the girl out of Texas, but you can't take Texas out of the girl.
I've always had yellow roses, but a couple years ago they bit the
dust...planted back in '86. I cried when I realized they were gone.

My wonderful helper will be over to roto till the soil tomorrow for the
new rose bed. I'm so lucky, I have the best friends and neighbors any
person could have anywhere. God is so good to me, thank you Lord!

Thanks for the prayers for Un-Dad, everybody. I'm sure he is grateful,a s am I.

Yes, Mil really suprised me with the quilt top. The last I had heard of it she'd sent it, along with the last row of blocks and sashing off to my Sister IN LAW so that she could add her handywork to the multi-generational effort. She never got around to it and Mom was fretting that she'd never see it again.

It was a suprise to see that she had finally gotten it back, and finished piecing the last row herself before passing it on to me. She says that she can think of nothing greater then if DD and I were to quilt it. Given the age of the blocks, Sadly, my hand quilting skills are nonexistant. And I honestly do not feel that the blocks are actually strong enough to hold up to it.They are in remarkable shape after 130 years... but... I'm guessing that Great Grandma was a little girl just learning to sew when they were made - which would explain why some of the blocks are made by her mother and some by her. (I'll have to look at the stitching and see if I can tell which was which.)